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I've used WAL-E (the predecessor of this) for backing up Postgres's DB for years and it's been a very pleasant experience. From what I've read so far this looks like it's superior in every way. Lower resource usage, faster operation, and the switch to Go for WAL-G (v.s. Python for WAL-E) means no more mucking with Python versions either.

Great job to everybody that's working on this. I'm looking forward to trying it out.

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python versioning can be a bitch, but virtualenv/virtualenvwrapper make 99.999999% of the problems go away.

i have a huge ETL pipeline at twitch that relies heavily on wal-e, and installs it on worker nodes and things like that.

that being said, if WAL-G is faster, i don't care waht it is written in, and am happy to use it

Every time I saw that mentioned, my mind goes to the movie. https://g.co/kgs/d8G9u5

I don't think it's a coincidence WAL-E is named as it is :)

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